On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 09:53:32AM +0000, Markus Kovero wrote: > > > > The current backplane does not have SES. However, I am getting a new one. > > The brochure says that it supports SES2. > > Does SES-2 support a mechanism to blink LEDs? > > In theory, its whole different story if your controller knows how to control > them, or if you are able to control them from Solaris. > eg. Dell MD1000 is SES enabled JBOD, but if its connected to SAS 5e/6e basic > sas-controller which does not control leds at all, you can blink leds with > proprietary software, but you don't have any information on which disk is in > which slot.. (enclosure does not share it's NAA identifiers from disks) >
Yep, if the enclosure provides all the required information through SES, then it's possible to to blink/lid the LEDs etc from the OS. I think FMA does this automatically in the case of disk failure if the enclosure is properly using/providing SES? -- Pasi _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
